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KNOWLEDGE of the nutritional requirements of Drosophila and the provision of a completely synthetic medium are likely to provide the means of obtaining much more detailed and accurate understanding of various aspects of gene action. Accordingly, we have been working for some time to achieve this objective. Drosophila normally lives on live yeast, but can be reared successfully on dead brewers' or bakers' yeast under aseptic conditions. Hence the most logical procedure seemed to require the provision of as many as possible of the known or likely nutritional components, and the subsequent addition of various yeast fractions to a basal medium containing these.
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BEGG, M., ROBERTSON, F. Nutritional Requirements of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 161, 769–770 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161769a0
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